World Bank supports sustainable development of family farming in Mato Grosso, Brazil

New partnership to regenerate and develop the dry shrubland of Brazil’s Caatinga

More than 40 public, private and civil society signatories have created a new partnership to manage the semi-arid hinterland in the Brazil states of Paraíba, Pernambuco and Rio Grande do…

Exploring EUDR Adaptation Strategies: Deputy Minister Hoang Trung Engages in Talks with IDH CEO in Switzerland

Deputy Minister Hoang Trung presented a gift of Vietnamese agricultural products to Daan Wensing. Photo: ICD. DAVOS, Switzerland – January 17, 2024 Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Hoang…

Press Release: Hatch Africa Raises $9.5m from AgDevCo and IDH Farmfit Fund to Expand High-growth Poultry Business in Sub-Saharan Africa

Original source: AgDevCo Hatch Africa, a rapidly growing, high-impact poultry business targeting underserved rural households, has secured a combined USD 9.5 million investment with…

“A living income for cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire” – Interview with project lead Karen Janssens

In 2020, Colruyt Group, Puratos, Rikolto, Access Agriculture, and Fairtrade Belgium kicked of an ambitious living income pilot project in San Pedro, Côte d’Ivoire.  The project, funded…

Tree registration initiative in Ghana hits the air waves

In November 2023, as part of the Cocoa and Forests Initiative (CFI) – over 20,000 cocoa farmers took part in an interactive radio campaign, designed to raise…

Food for Thought

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Innovative Premium Mechanism Drives Sustainable Agroforestry Transformation in Cocoa Supply Chain

Begin Your 2024 with the Latest in Smallholder Agriculture

Kickstart your new year with the latest developments in smallholder agriculture through our Smallholder-Inclusive Business Newsletter. In our latest edition, we highlight a fun quiz to challenge and…

Linear thinking is no help to us in solving the problems of 2024

Those of us in mission-driven roles are finding that we are wasting our time and money if we try to approach climate and income inequality problems in our supply chains one by one. We just can’t understand systemic problems properly that way. As we look back at 15 years of IDH’s existence, I can frankly say that IDH learned this the hard way.